This blog post will explain how to set up your private registry using AWS ECR. In the first step we are going to create a private repository. In the second step, we will connect via the command line to that repository and upload a Docker image. Creating a repository...

Step 3, Dynamic Types This time we want to create the Dynamic Types as an abstraction layer for the real CloudFormation stacks. In the last blog entry, we defined the way how to communicate with AWS and in this article we will build the appropriate workflows in Orchestrator. First,...

After having explained the terminology in the last blog entry, I’ll like to show how to actually get ECS up and running. The goal is to set up an Apache web server by using the httpd container image, which is out-of-the-box available. The httpd container image is the official...

This is the first part of our article series on Docker on AWS. AWS provides two different services which help to run and manage Docker containers in the cloud: Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) and EC2 Container Registry (ECR). To run Docker containers in AWS, however, these two services...

Orchestrator already provides a feature called Dynamic Types in order to build your own custom Orchestrator data types since long, but most people don’t really use them, because it needs some time to fully understand and work with them. In conjunction with vRealize Automation, Dynamic Types can be used...

Step 2, AWS CLI and CloudFormation Welcome back to our little project. Last time, we have outlined the concept for triggering CloudFormation templates from the vRealize Automation service catalog and today we want to talk about the AWS command line interface and how to manage CloudFormation stacks with it....